Wazir

Wazir often refers to:

• Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister

Wazir may also refer to:

Places

• Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan
• Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
• Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul), a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Wazir, Nangarhar, a village in Khogyani District, Afghanistan

Other uses

• Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction
• Wazir (film), a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar
• Wazir (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Waziristan, Pakistan
• Wazir (Khogyani clan), a tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
• Waziri language, a Pashto dialects spoken in the Waziristan region of Pakistan
• Vizier (Brunei), or Wazir, a class of royal dignitaries in Brunei

People with the name

• Wazir Khan (Lahore) (1560–1641), 17th-century court physician to Shah Jahan
• Wazir Khan (Sirhind) (1635–1710), governor of Sirhind in the Mughal Empire
• Wazir Ali Khan (1780–1817), fourth nawab of Awadh, India
• Wazir Akbar Khan (1816–1845), an Afghan prince, general, and emir
• Wazir Arsala Khan, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in 1869
• Wazir Ali (1903–1950), India Test cricketer
• Wazir Mohammad (1929–2025), Pakistani cricketer and banker
• Haji Wazir (Bagram detainee), a detainee at Bagram who had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf
• Ali Wazir (born 1976), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
• Arif Wazir (1982–2020), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
• Mir Kalam (Mir Kalam Khan Wazir) (born 1990), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
• Khalil al-Wazir (1935–1988), Palestinian military leader and senior aide of Yasser Arafat
• Khalid Wazir (1936–2020), former Pakistani cricketer
• Safiya Wazir (born 1991), American politician
• Usman Wazeer (born 2000), Pakistani boxer
• Wazir Baig (born 1942), Pakistani politician and former speaker of Gilgit Baltistan Assembly
• Gilaman Wazir (1992-2024), Afghan Pashto poet and political activist

See also

• Waziri (disambiguation)
• Vazir (disambiguation)